Seward

At the 2020 census, 9,624 Americans bore the surname Seward — 3,605th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 31,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,624
Rank: 3,605th
How common: 1 in 31,100
Per 100,000: 3.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Seward described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.8%
Black, not Hispanic 19.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Seward

Sewell

Also a first name

Seward has been given to 568 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 1915. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.